1935 Smith Corona Sterling #1A 9529
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Mark Schrad (MLSchrad)
Created: 01-02-2021 at 12:37PM
Last Edit: 03-15-2021 at 12:14PM
Description:
I bought this burgundy 1935 Corona Sterling "flat top" in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania in April of 2017. It is gorgeous, though the platen was rock hard and there was no case to it. Oh! And there was a persistent problem with an upside-down letter O, which was only remedied years later when I simply discovered that the slug was placed upside-down on the type arm, and was still loose and could easily be flipped.
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Hunter: Mark Schrad (MLSchrad)
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Professor of Political Science and Director of Russian Area Studies at Villanova University. Writes about alcohol politics, Russia, and international law when not refurbishing old typewriters.
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